What they may do · DPDP §6(4)
What JioHotstar (Jiostar India Private Limited) does with your data
Streaming built on interest-based advertising: your watch history and in-app activity feed an ad profile tied to your device advertising ID. That profile is kept for the maximum period the law allows, and your ad IDs are shared with exchanges that target you on other sites too.
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Shares your data with partners
Passed to group companies, advertisers or analytics firms you never chose.
What this costs you. Your number and habits travel to companies you have never heard of and never agreed to. This is the step where the spam calls start.
Show me where they say that
JioHotstar (Jiostar India Private Limited)’s own policy says “Our affiliate and group companies may access and use your information where they perform services on our behalf and, unless prohibited under applicable law, for use on their own behalf to market JioHotstar Services, our other services, and the services and products generally offered by our affiliate and group companies and/or third parties.”
Our summary affiliate and group companies may access and use your information on their own behalf to market their and third parties' services.
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Builds an advertising profile of you
They watch what you view, tap and buy, and use it to decide which ads you see.
What this costs you. Your attention gets priced. What you hesitate over becomes a bid — and a profile built to predict you is a profile built to persuade you.
Show me where they say that
JioHotstar (Jiostar India Private Limited)’s own policy says “Display or target advertisements on the Platform based on your registration or profile information, location and/or your activity on the Platform across all your streaming devices (including inferred information through usage and log data) which is associated with your device advertising identifier (IDFA, GAID etc) – this is typically referred to as 'interest-based advertising'.”
Our summary targets advertising from your profile, location and platform activity, tied to your device advertising identifier — its own term is interest-based advertising.
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Follows you onto other websites and apps
Their tracking carries on after you leave, through pixels and SDKs embedded elsewhere.
What this costs you. You get recognised on sites that have nothing to do with them. Closing the app does not close the file.
Show me where they say that
JioHotstar (Jiostar India Private Limited)’s own policy says “The advertisement identifiers are used by these exchanges and service providers to decide which ads you see both on our sites and applications and on third-party sites and applications.”
Our summary exchanges and service providers use those advertising identifiers to decide which ads you see on third-party sites and applications.
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Keeps your records long-term
Held on after you stop using the service.
What this costs you. Years after you delete the app, the record is still sitting there — and every year it sits there is another year it can leak.
Show me where they say that
JioHotstar (Jiostar India Private Limited)’s own policy says “The data that we collect to create a profile of you for the purpose of marketing and advertising (i.e. your watch history and activity on the platform) is retained for the maximum period allowed by law in your territory.”
Our summary the marketing/advertising profile built from your watch history is retained for the maximum period allowed by law.
What the policy does not mention
These are uses JioHotstar (Jiostar India Private Limited)’s policy is silent on. Silence is not a promise — it means the document does not say, and we do not infer either way.
- Processes your face or other biometrics
- Trains AI models on your content
JioHotstar is one app. How many are on your phone?
Most people carry twenty to forty. Add yours and see the total in one screen — how many share your data, profile you for ads, or follow you across the web. Then take it back from all of them at once.
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Questions
What does JioHotstar (Jiostar India Private Limited) do with my personal data?
According to JioHotstar (Jiostar India Private Limited)'s own privacy policy, read on 2026-08-12, it discloses 4 of the six uses we track: shares your data with partners, builds an advertising profile of you, follows you onto other websites and apps, keeps your records long-term.
Can I withdraw my consent from JioHotstar (Jiostar India Private Limited)?
Section 6(4) of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 gives you the right to withdraw consent for processing you agreed to. The Act's substantive provisions commence in stages up to May 2027, so a request made now asks for voluntary compliance and puts the date on record. Processing a company carries out under a legal obligation — such as KYC records the RBI requires — cannot be withdrawn.
Does JioHotstar (Jiostar India Private Limited) track me for advertising?
Yes — JioHotstar (Jiostar India Private Limited)'s published policy discloses this. The exact sentence it is based on is quoted on this page, with the date we read it and a link to the source.
Every use above is one JioHotstar (Jiostar India Private Limited) declared in its own published privacy policy, which we
read on 2026-08-12. Quotes are verbatim; the summary beside each one is ours
and is labelled as ours. Nothing here is inferred.
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made today asks for voluntary compliance and records the date you asked.
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